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The Wilderness

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The Wilderness

Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique and Nakia are in their early 20s and at the beginning. Of their careers, of marriage, of motherhood, and of big-city lives in New York and Los Angeles. Together, they are finding their way through the wilderness, that period of life when the reality of contemporary adulthood --- overwhelming, mysterious, and full of freedom and consequences --- swoops in and stays. As these friends move from the late 2000s into the late 2020s, from young adults to grown women, they must figure out what they mean to one another --- amid political upheaval, economic and environmental instability, and the increasing volatility of modern American life.

The Wilderness
by Angela Flournoy

  • Publication Date: September 16, 2025
  • Genres: Fiction, Women's Fiction
  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Mariner Books
  • ISBN-10: 0063318776
  • ISBN-13: 9780063318779